The '''Kennedy Amendment''' was U.S. Senate a bill presented by [[U.S. Senator]] [[Edward Kennedy|Edward "Ted" Kennedy]] in 1976 to modify the Foreign Military Assistance Act in order to exclude Chile from the military aid that his country provided to the Latin American republics that had signed the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR). This was an action against [[Augusto Pinochet]]'s [[Military Government (Chile)|Military Government]] | The '''Kennedy Amendment''' was U.S. Senate a bill presented by [[U.S. Senator]] [[Edward Kennedy|Edward "Ted" Kennedy]] in 1976 to modify the Foreign Military Assistance Act in order to exclude Chile from the military aid that his country provided to the Latin American republics that had signed the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR). This was an action against [[Augusto Pinochet]]'s [[Military Government (Chile)|Military Government]] |